Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The Moaning, Groaning, I just want to Vent thread

You can have the car. I prefer the top hat.

This is such a nice thread! What a great way to get what's bothering you off your chest and shove it in the faces of those you call friends!



KI-dding!!!!

So, I was going to have my great nephew and his friend come up to Boston for the day this coming Saturday. The Boston Library has a Civil War collections and they give tours on Saturdays. My great nephew and his friend are into the Civil War.

However, the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. And they are having a victory parade for them on Saturday. The parade ends at Copley Square. The library is in Copley Square. I am sure that if the Bruins had known about my plans, they would have thrown the game.

Luckily the exhibit is running through the summer. So I called my niece to move the date back a week.

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And people act confused when I explain that Portland's overall lack of major sports franchises is one of its strongest selling points.

Damn it.

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">So I volunteered at our local co-op for nearly six years. I was also a founding member when they were still just a tiny buyer's club meeting in the basement of a church fifteen blocks or so up the street-- back in 1999. Over the years, I've invested who knows how many thousands of hours and thousands of dollars in the place. When there was a labor dispute there last Spring, I gave the employees verbal and written support. I went to meetings to try and let the managers know that the customers were on the workers' side in the dispute.

But our relationship overall has gradually gone south over the last year or so. I was, in a very passive-aggressive, high-handed way, shuffled out of my regular post there so they could bring in somebody else-- who I guess was a "hipper" brand of artist than myself. They didn't have the decency to do this to my face or set anything else up for me. It was up to me to scrounge around for other work and beg other people to find it for me.

Then the one board I was still permitted to letter and illustrate once a week got smaller and smaller, until I was working in a space that was maybe eighteen by eighteen inches.

I applied for regular work there twice in the last year, when they were hiring. Though they've known me for years and once even voted me a "Volunteer Of The Month" I never got called for an interview. Never even got a form rejection or any acknowledgment of my application.

This is the kind of behavior that's par for the course with large businesses, but it's a huge slap in the face coming from people who claim to be a local concern that cares about its members.

The other day I showed up for my shift to find that somebody else has taken over the tiny bit of space that I was still so generously permitted to letter. Something else else just snapped. I walked out ten minutes into my shift. Yesterday I resigned from my post by email.

I'm taking a week away to cool off, but I don't think I want to shop there or be a member anymore. They wanted my money and my time, but they don't want me. Eff 'em. I might as well just go shop at the damn Mal-Wart, which I at least always expected callous, predatory behavior from.

Damn it. I admit it. I actually went home and cried. I was that upset.</span></span>

In other news, The Sid has needed two more trips to the vet in the last three weeks.

So much for whatever scant headway I've made paying down the credit cards in the last three months.

:rolleyes:

I should just max everything out fixing up the house, going to the doctor, buying myself some new eyeglasses (that I could actually see out of) and maybe that fancy juicer I've always wanted-- and then declare bankruptcy. What the hell? Everyone else is doing it.

I get that construction on our roads needs to happen in order to improve quality, etc. I also get that it needs to happen in the nice weather such as spring, summer and fall ... so far so good.

My biggest beef is WHY OH WHY does the ministry of transportation reduce a 3 or 4 lane hightway down to just ONE lane? And it's not even 10:00P.M. yet when they do???

It's summer, people are out visiting/travelling, AND malls are open until 9P.M. as well anyway!

Some of us are just trying to get home from work ya know!!!

Sheesh!

Get'an offroad vehicle. Cut through people's yards. Run over garden gnomes. Crash the rail at the mall and send people running... EMBRACE YOUR INNER VILLAIN AND SPREAD DESTRUCTION UPON AN UNSUSPECTING POPULACE..... and get home in time for dinner.




*post said only in humor. Homeland security need not launch an investigation.

Wow, I guess I must be slowing down. Why didn't I think of all that???

LET THE STREETS RUN RED... WITH SLUSHIEEEEEEEE!

RAISE THE MIZENMAST, UNFURL THE SAILS, TONIGHT...TONIGHT WE DINE ON HOOHOOS AND 5 HOUR ENERGY DRINKS.... YAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!

Oh lord, he's been watching those damned zombie movies again!!!

God. I need a vacation. Not gonna get one though for who knows how long.

Laptop is out of commission...gonna have a friend (in the IT biz) look at it Monday to see if it can be salvaged...I hope so.

Just got my daughters room open...the door knob snapped inside...fun to pry everything away enough to jimmy it.

Yep...no time off for me anytime in the foreseeable future...cannot afford it. Living paycheck to paycheck (when you're about three paychecks behind) is really not any way to live.

<cleansing Dev's aura as I type>...

... Oh negative energy gods, leave the presence of my buddy Dev Em RIGHT NOW!!!!!

There. That outta do it! <fingers crossed>

Dev, amigo, I hope it gets better. Broke this weekend because a contract that would either let me buy gas for next week to work on or pay a payment to the loan company arrived on saturday instead of friday. Oh, and my and Carol's anniversary is next week, so one way or the other, gotta figure out how to get her an anniversary gift.

hang tough amigo. Just remember, someone, somewhere, is living the good life and laughing at us.

Oh yeah...Anniv. is coming up in early July as well.

So . . . is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Well, no money to do anything. 14 years this year. Have not gone anywhere for our anniv since our 1st...and we barely afforded that.

Great thing. together ten years, married 8. Kid five years old. Wouldnt' trade Carol for anything in the world.

Congrats to you both for your upcoming anniversaries!

It was 16 years (20 total) for Cathy and I on the 11th. Wow did it really fly by, it actually only feels more like 8 or 9 years went by, not 16!! I guess that means I'm having a good time, right?
I can't say the same for my wife though!

We've been together 15 years.

It drives my wife nuts. I knew before she did that she was the one for me and vice versa. I knew befoe she did that she was pregnant. I was the one that knocked her (not physically, mind you) speechless with my proposal.

and I never let her forget that it was her choice of pastor that included "and obey" in the vows that she agreed to, lol. *But only in a fun, loving way.

August for us. I doubt any extravagant gestures are in the offing, either.

A trip to the next suburb over to hit a yard sale is my current idea of an "exotic vacation."

OK I know that not everybody has a cell phone, but there seems to be an awful lot of friends of my neighbors that don't have cell phones. Why else would they beep their car horns repeatedly?

Besides my pet peeve about society's poor driving habits, my other, less serious one would have to how people at work leave their half empty water bottles lying around!
Either drink it and get rid of it or else take it with you when you leave.
I don't want to be cleaning up after you, and neither does anyone else!